Talk:Ale's Stones

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I just read an article in DN about a recent phony (re)discovery of a megalithic site where the expert interviewed claims that Ale's Stones were restored without proper examinations of the exact original position of the stones. I think this would be relevant to mention in the article, but using a more precise source.

Peter ^Isotalo 20:39, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Peter, the "restoration" (where the stones were carelessly raised and the soil around them bulldozed) happened in 1956 [1]. Some stones outside the ship setting, shown in older photographs and sketches, were apparantly carted away. If you find the time to write about it, you could perhaps illustrate the section with photographs of the pre-restoration position of the stones, which should now be in the public domain (some were published in 1914). The famous sketch by C.G.G. Hilfelings from 1777, showing the stones' original position, [2], [3], is perhaps already in commons. I'll check. Short on time though, so I'll have to leave the writing about the brutal "excavation" methods of the 1950s to someone else. Best, Pia (talk) 20:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I put the image up on the commons: [4]. I have also added it to the swedish article, but the english one requies some more work. Mossig (talk) 18:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)